Team Herald
MARGAO: The Aam Aadmi Party came down heavily on the government accusing it of playing with the lives of Goans given the fact that the State is literally facing an outbreak of dengue, the potholes are resulting in deaths on the road, coal pollution has affected thousands of people in Mormugao and there is social tension being generated.
Briefing media persons, AAP Goa Convener Elvis Gomes alleged that there is literally a dengue outbreak in Goa with cases in Margao and Vasco spiraling. “50 such cases are reported in Mormugao of which two died,” he said.
“In Delhi, a simple exercise of 10 minutes for 10 weeks at 10 am has brought down the dengue cases from 15,000 in 2015 to merely 200 during the current year,” he said and urged the Goa government to adopt that programme in Goa.
Every Sunday at 10 am everybody in Delhi goes around his house and surrounding areas for 10 minutes to overturn anything that has a possibility of collecting water and by doing this, he said, dengue cases in Delhi have dropped drastically.
“As dengue is transmitted by a mosquito that breeds in clean water ensuring that there is no water stagnation is a sure way of not giving the mosquito a chance to multiply,” he said.
He also lamented the sorry state of roads in Goa and sought to know why contractors are not penalised for the bad roads and why are they not asked to repair the roads. He alleged that the PWD officials sleep over the matter till such time that the security deposited by the contractor is returned.
Ramiro Mascarenhas lamented that despite filing a complaint about the 200 trees that were cut illegally at Quepem, the Forest Department has not taken any action against the person responsible for this and wondered whether the government was forcing people to move the courts to get justice.
Sidharth Kunkalienkar said that even there were many problems facing Goans the government is very clandestinely fueling social tension over changing the name of a shanty or ‘Nagri’ and between two communities.
as is presently experienced in Benaulim.
